Klopka - Die Falle

Serbien-Montenegro Deutschland Ungarn 2006/2007 Spielfilm

Summary

The Trap

In order to pay for a life-saving operation for his son, a quite normal man signs a pact with the devil and becomes a solitary murderer. The deed soon starts hounding Mladen: keeping the secret from his wife forces him into a kind of emotional poker, and his conscience also doesn′t cooperate very long in this betrayal of his own moral standards. A "Balkan version of ′Crime and Punishment′", as director Srdan Golubović writes, set against the backdrop of a transition process gone awry: "a modern ′film noir′ about post-Milošević Serbia, where there is no more war, just a moral and existential desert."

Golubović vividly dissects the personality transformations from the perspective of a confession, always showing great respect for his protagonists. With its distinctive language of images, which finds a style of its own between close-ups and the representation of urban architecture, the film reveals an artistic approach to the theme that points beyond empty metaphors at the personal quality of the story – a story whose pull can′t be refused.

Bernd Buder

Source: 57. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

 

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Credits

All Credits

Shoot

    • Belgrad
Duration:
2896 m, 105 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1.85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby SRD
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 21.08.2007, 111188, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 12.02.2007, Berlin, IFF - Internationales Forum des Jungen Films;
Kinostart (DE): 11.10.2007;
TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 03.12.2010, Arte

Titles

  • Originaltitel (DE) Klopka - Die Falle
  • Originaltitel (CS HU) Klopka
  • Schreibvariante (CS) Клопка

Versions

Original

Duration:
2896 m, 105 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1.85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby SRD
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 21.08.2007, 111188, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 12.02.2007, Berlin, IFF - Internationales Forum des Jungen Films;
Kinostart (DE): 11.10.2007;
TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 03.12.2010, Arte

Awards

FBW 2007
  • Prädikat: Besonders wertvoll
Filmfestival GoEast Wiesbaden 2007
  • Regiepreis
  • FIPRESCI-Preis
IFF Sofia 2007
  • Stella Artois Grand Prix